UNM vs. MET, PRU, PRI, LNC, CNO, CIA, AFL, PFG, SPG, and BCS
Should you be buying Unum Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Unum Group include MetLife (MET), Prudential Financial (PRU), Primerica (PRI), Lincoln National (LNC), CNO Financial Group (CNO), Citizens (CIA), Aflac (AFL), Principal Financial Group (PFG), Simon Property Group (SPG), and Barclays (BCS). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Unum Group vs.
MetLife (NYSE:MET) and Unum Group (NYSE:UNM) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
MetLife has higher revenue and earnings than Unum Group. Unum Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MetLife, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MetLife pays an annual dividend of $2.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Unum Group pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. MetLife pays out 36.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Unum Group pays out 17.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. MetLife has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years and Unum Group has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years.
Unum Group has a net margin of 13.81% compared to MetLife's net margin of 6.19%. MetLife's return on equity of 20.42% beat Unum Group's return on equity.
MetLife has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unum Group has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
MetLife currently has a consensus price target of $94.58, indicating a potential upside of 17.33%. Unum Group has a consensus price target of $86.62, indicating a potential upside of 9.65%. Given MetLife's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe MetLife is more favorable than Unum Group.
In the previous week, MetLife had 8 more articles in the media than Unum Group. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for MetLife and 14 mentions for Unum Group. Unum Group's average media sentiment score of 1.52 beat MetLife's score of 0.90 indicating that Unum Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MetLife received 551 more outperform votes than Unum Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.84% of users gave MetLife an outperform vote while only 47.65% of users gave Unum Group an outperform vote.
95.0% of MetLife shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.6% of Unum Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of MetLife shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Unum Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
MetLife beats Unum Group on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:UNM) was last updated on 3/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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